Lophoctenium Richter, 1850


DESCRIPTION: Trace is composed of one or more bunches of closely spaced, inwardly bent “twigs” or grooves with comblike branches radiating from a main axis

BEHAVIOR(S): Fodinichnia, repetitive deposit feeding by probing into the sediment

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTINGS: Deep marine flysch deposits

POSSIBLE TRACEMAKERS: Bivalves

GEOLOGIC RANGE: Ordovician-Miocene

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: Hanzschel, 1975; Uchman, 1998; Ekdale, A. A., Bromley, R.G., 2001

REMARKS: Description from Uchman (1998)

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